california river parkways grant program - California Resources Agency

APPENDIX C – GLOSSARY – Definition of Terms
Unless otherwise stated, the terms used in these grant guidelines have the following meanings:
Acquisition - means obtaining a fee interest or any other interest in real property, including
easements, leases, and development rights.
Applicant - means an eligible organization requesting funding from a program administered by the
State.
Biotechnical Methods - means the use of mechanical elements in combination with live
vegetation to arrest and prevent slope failures and erosion. The mechanical elements may include
large organic structures like wood and natural rock as well as man-made materials like concrete
and engineered rock revetment. The biological and mechanical elements must be appropriate to
the site-specific landscape and must function together in an integrated and complementary
manner.
Bond or Bond Act - means Proposition 84, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply,
Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006.
CEQA - means the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code Section 21000 et
seq.; Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Section 15000 et seq.
Community - means a population of persons residing in the same locality under the same local
governance, such as a city, town, county, or named unincorporated area.
Compatible Recreational Opportunities - means low impact recreational activities designed to
protect natural areas and minimize impacts to natural resources. Low impact recreational activities
include walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian use, non-motorized boating, bird watching, fishing,
star-gazing, photography and organized events such as interpretive tours or nature walks. The
same recreational activity may be compatible in one environment or location, and incompatible in
another environment or location.
Conservation Easement - means any limitation in a deed, will or other instrument in the form of
an Easement, restriction, covenant or condition which is or has been executed by or on behalf of
the owner of the land subject to such easement and is binding upon the successive owners of such
land, and the purpose of which is to retain land predominantly in its natural, scenic, historical,
agricultural, forested or open-space condition (Civil Code Section 815.1).
Development - includes, but is not limited to, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration,
enhancement, preservation, protection, and interpretation.
Disadvantaged Community - means a community with an annual median household income that
is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income.
Easement - means an interest in land entitling the holder thereof to a limited use or enjoyment of
the land in which the interest exists.
Enhancement - means to modify current conditions, and may be used to describe a River
Parkway project that would result in a natural resource, recreational area, or existing facility
realizing desired improvements (e.g., greater public access, increased riparian habitat, etc.) while
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